- not as to governmental policy and not as regards insuring fair primaries
- that admission is the defense to a suit by Bernie Sanders supporters!
- depending on your status in the Democrat Party, lying with alacrity, or the credulity to continue believing it, is part of your membership.
No particular friend of Republicans, LawNews.com is a publication headed by Dan Abrams. It is sort of a scandal rag that caters to the legal set. A nevertheless notable commentary was posted their yesterday by Elura Nanos :
DNC Stoops To New Low In Fraud Lawsuit Filed By Bernie Backers (excerpts – bold our emphasis)
The DNC just reached a new low with its latest defensive filing in the class action lawsuit brought by a group of Bernie Sanders supporters.
To recap: a group of plaintiff donors to the Sanders campaign sued the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz in federal court in Florida. The lawsuitalleges that the DNC’s favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders amounted to fraud, misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence. The plaintiffs have pointed to damning evidence in the shape of emails posted by Wikileaks proving that the Democratic Party was working against Bernie Sanders from the start.
On October 14, the DNC filed its brief in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit, and some of its defenses are real whoppers. The brief begins with the usual fare – arguments over procedural defects and jurisdiction. But nestled in the brief are two arguments that are deeply disturbing. First, there’s the contention by the DNC that the Bernie Sanders donors knew that the committee was biased. Second, and even more disturbing, is the argument that any statements about being neutral and fair to all candidates if made by the DNC were nothing but “political promises” and are unenforceable at law.
If nothing else, this column, or rather the Democratic National Committee’s ‘righteous’ argument, is amusing. This is something one would expect Snopes to label “false”…and yet it is consistent with Democratic Party standard operating philosophy. Bernie’s folks shoulda known.
In our humble opinion, the complainants have a great case as a civil matter and we would say that criminal charges should be considered. The position of delegate has a state function as well as DNC function. Delegates sometimes serve as primary electors in the absence of general primaries when ballot positions come up outside of the time allotted for regular primary elections. Accordingly, delegate positions in many or all states are statutory positions, provided for in law. Corrupting processes that impact that should be actionable.
DLH with R Mall
Would the Republican National Committee make the same defense: in effect, primary voters should know that the committee is biased and no one should believe anything they say?
I dunno , but it seems to me there’s something disturbing about what passes for our political process these days. Am I naive? Yep, just like 90% of the American people.